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Dateline: 5th October, 2005
Pentabus Theatre the national new writing company based in the Midlands, has joined forces with Time Out Award winner Alecky Blythe to produce an exposé of the year-round strawberry business.
Strawberry Fields, a drama/documentary by Alecky Blythe, directed by Theresa Heskins and designed by Kate Bunce, will be touring nationally throughout October and November. The play is a collaboration between one of the UK’s most established new writing companies, and the verbatim theatre style championed by Alecky Blythe’s Recorded Delivery Company. Her production of Come Out Eli opened at the Arcola Theatre and revived as part of the BAC Time Out Critics’ Choice Season.
Strawberries are big business and this new production goes behind-the-scenes to find out how British growers manage to keep the summer fruit on the supermarket shelves. Strawberry Fields is a drama-documentary that uses the words and stories of the people directly involved to reveal the environmental and social costs of industrialised farming, from the perspective of farmers, politicians, local residents, migrant workers and supermarket shoppers: it’s moving, funny and deadly serious.
Strawberry Fields completed a small-scale tour of the Midlands last Spring to sell-out houses. Pentabus recently celebrated 30 years of producing new plays which reflect the rural communities of their home county, Shropshire.
Strawberry Fields is directed by Theresa Heskins and designed by Kate Bunce. The cast includes Kenny Blyth, Phil Cheadle, Morgan George, Bidi Iredale and Kesty Morrison. The Tour
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